Vocational Outcomes Following Psychosocial Rehabilitation

This article reports on a multisite, longitudinal study of participants in three psychosocial rehabilitation centers. Two hundred seventy-five subjects who identified themselves as having a vocational goal were studied over a three-and-one-half-year period. Demographic and clinical variables were examined, as were vocational outcomes. Subjects who became employed were compared to those who did not, on a variety of demographic and clinical indicators; surprisingly, there were few differences. Base-rate vocational outcomes are suggested for participants in psychosocial rehabilitation centers. Implications of these findings are discussed.